BY MARTIN KICH These are the results of a presidential polling of K-8 students conducted by Scholastic. The first of these students should be eligible to vote in the 2024 presidential election. I think that the results are fairly remarkable, given that the professoriate has not yet had the opportunity to indoctrinate these students with…
BY BRIAN C. MITCHELL Rick Seltzer reported recently in Inside Higher Education on a complex decision by Princeton University to settle litigation with neighboring homeowners who argued that the University was a profit-making institution and therefore subject potentially to millions of additional dollars in taxes annually. Arrangement Doesn’t Settle Issue of Tax Exemption The arrangement…
BY HANK REICHMAN In previous posts to this blog I have criticized the blacklisting activities of two pro-Israel organizations, the Amcha Initiative and Canary Mission. The former group published a list of 218 faculty members in Middle East studies at U.S. colleges and universities who signed a petition calling for an academic boycott of Israel…
BY HANK REICHMAN I first met Tom Hayden, who died eight days ago at age 76, when we both participated in the occupation of Mathematics Hall during the Columbia University student rebellion of 1968. Tom was, of course, no longer a student and had no institutional affiliation with Columbia, but he joined the protesters both…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Trump said at a rally in Albuquerque: “You know, it would be much easier working for Obama or working for Crooked Hillary because, frankly, when you’re working for Hillary, she wants to let people just pour in. You could have 650 million people pour in, and we do nothing about it. Think of…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following charts suggest that the demographic challenges that the GOP faces in this presidential election may have been put in stark profile by Trump’s very divisive candidacy, but they reflect, instead, longer-term and deepening problems for the party: The following charts are taken from a GIF attached to an article…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH This is from Brian Stetler’s Reliable Sources daily newsletter from CNN for Sunday, October 16: “Trump Turns on SNL “Sunday’s funniest (?) story is about SNL and specifically about Trump’s reaction to the show. On Sunday morning, after watching the skits, he tweeted, ‘Watched Saturday Night Live hit job on me. Time to retire…
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following is adapted from an article published yesterday in Labor Notes by Melanie Barron and Jeffrey Lichtenstein. Over the past 17 years, United Campus Workers (Communications Workers Local 3865) has built a non-majority, wall-to-wall union. Anyone working for a public university in Tennessee can join—and over 1,600 have. Members include…